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Re: NEW CAR BUILD 13 years, 8 months ago #10446

RacerX wrote:
I weight 230 with street clothes. I still have to add, my gear, fire system, nets, exhaust system, cooling suit, passenger seat and belts. The fuel tank was close to being empty. That leaves me 120 lbs for all the stuff I have to add. I'd like to come in just a tick over 2600 lbs with very little fuel. Isn't that the way its suppose to be done?


Ok what stuff do you need to add? 120lbs is alot of stuff. personal gear should be 10lbs at most. Fire system 10lbs and nets 2 lbs. Passeners seat.. heck alot of cars don't run them and cool suit usally puts cars over the 2600lbs min. I try to shoot for 2600lbs min on zero fuel no cool suit. I rarely run the cool suit during qualfying and we must make weight after qualifying. Also it is possible to run out of gas during a race and then be weighted and DQ'ed.

In any event I see 30lbs of gear not including pass seat. Not sure what you maean by exhaust though.
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Re: NEW CAR BUILD 13 years, 8 months ago #10484

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I instruct so I'd like to be able to take students out and another benifet is that if I'm having trouble, someone can take me out. The wife and kids like to go out once in a while too.

passenger seat 20
passenger seat mount ??
fire system 12
driver and passenger belts 4
suit, gloves, helmet, hans ??
full exhaust system 40 (just the headers are on now)
window and side nets ??
cool suit system ??
driver and passenger seat back braces 3
camra system and mount ??

This leaves 41 lbs for the ??
The tank was almost empty too.

The plan is to get all this installed in the car in the next few months as the budget allows. Once it's all installed, I'll have it weight and corner ballanced.
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Last Edit: 13 years, 8 months ago by RacerX.

Re: NEW CAR BUILD 13 years, 8 months ago #10499

Ok... I am just surprised you got that light.

Just make sure you scale it before you race it. If you add ballst read the ballast rules. There are limitions in where it can be placed and how it must be secured.
Joe Paluch
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Arizona Regional 944 Spec Director, National Rules Coordinator
2006 Az Champion - 944 Spec Racer Since 2002

Re: NEW CAR BUILD 13 years, 8 months ago #10509

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I might have to add ballast in the first few races till I get all the stuff in or run a full tank of fuel. What do the plastic tanks hold, something like 21 gallons?
Ken Frey #3 944-Spec MW Region

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Re: NEW CAR BUILD 13 years, 8 months ago #10516

whats the usual adjustment for reindexing the torsions? Is it like two splines or one or something?
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Re: NEW CAR BUILD 13 years, 8 months ago #10518

xsboost90 wrote:
whats the usual adjustment for reindexing the torsions? Is it like two splines or one or something?


It's all right here: www.944spec.org/944SPEC/technical-articl...ion-bar-re-indexing.
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